Mafia as much as i respect you, i think you may be a little bit wrong there.
I actually was around in the admin's chat, i just watched the stream, i didn't admin as i was not the admin for this competition .
I was also around in admin's chat when the decision to keep it Bo7 was taken. I won't paste skype chat i am not a big fan of it.
I agree with you that the only person who wanted Bo7 was Roz, as much as the only person who didn't want SEACL play-offs was Benji. However for both case the format we were going to use was written in the competiion thread, so we didn't change the format half-way.
The original thread of SEACC is there: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=3414
It clearly states that the format for SEACC is Ro64, Single Elimination GSTL All-Kill, Bo7. There is no special mentions to the final format, so it has to be the same as the rest of the competition.
I don't state that a team prefering Bo7 to Bo9 while they maybe could have the 5th player is good, i just say that their decision to prefer a Bo7 is legit.
As you said i was not in the game at the time of the finals so i won't say anything on what happened in the in-game chat. I just want to state that having finals format Bo7 instead of Bo9 or Bo21 ishouldn't be a source of arguments between the two teams.
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